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Health and Social Care Act 2008

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Hearing Aid Council

123Dissolution of Hearing Aid Council

(1)The Hearing Aid Council is dissolved.

(2)The Hearing Aid Council Act 1968 (c. 50) and the Hearing Aid Council (Extension) Act 1975 (c. 39) cease to have effect.

(3)An order under section 170(3) may not appoint a day for the coming into force of—

(a)subsection (1), or

(b)subsection (2), so far as relating to the profession mentioned in section 60(2)(ca) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8),

unless the following conditions are met.

(4)Those conditions are—

(a)that an Order in Council under section 60 of the Health Act 1999 (regulation of health care and associated professions) has made provision by virtue of subsection (2)(ca) of that section (regulation of dispensers of hearing aids), and

(b)that the day appointed under section 170(3) is not earlier than the day on which the Order in Council, so far as making such provision, comes into force.

(5)The Secretary of State may by order make provision for the transfer of property, rights and liabilities of the Hearing Aid Council to any relevant regulatory body or to the Secretary of State.

(6)For that purpose a “relevant regulatory body” is any body which under an Order in Council under section 60 of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) is responsible for the regulation of the profession mentioned in subsection (2)(ca) of that section.

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